Pleasant View El Sch

Pleasant View El Sch is a middle-of-the-pack primary school in Red Lion, Pennsylvania, one of the schools within Red Lion Area SD. The school educates 436 students in grades K through 6.

Red Lion Area SD comprises 8 schools with combined enrollment of 4,546 students; Pleasant View El Sch is among them.

Demographically, Pleasant View El Sch reports that the student body is overwhelmingly White (81%); the rest breaks down as 10% Hispanic, 6% multiracial, 2% Black. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

On the resource side, On paper, Pleasant View El Sch has 32 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 13.4:1. The state averages about 13.1:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. About 58% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Pleasant View El Sch performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 52.9%, the actual is 53.2%, a residual of +0.3 points.

In the broader community, community-level numbers for York County indicate the typical household earns roughly $84,829 per year, 28% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 6%. Across York County's 111 public schools (combined enrollment of about 64,242 students), Pleasant View El Sch is one campus in the mix.

Red Lion Area SHS is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.9 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Pleasant View El Sch comes 4th of 9 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 53.2%.

The campus sits in a small-town setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Pleasant View El Sch has fell 11%, going from 489 students in 2018 to 436 in 2025. The White share of enrollment fell from 90% to 81% over that span. Class-load math has fell: from 17.0:1 in 2018 to 13.4:1 in 2025.

On the community side, posts here usually surface around school events, parent volunteer needs, and clubs. The community welcomes input from current and former families.